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Obviously I'm new here. I've read the forums before to get help with some problems but never created an account and posted.

A few weeks ago I had an issue with the Win 7 Home Security 2012 virus. I followed the steps here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-win-7-home-security-2012 to remove it and thought I was successful. Last night it came up again and I followed those steps again. Since following those steps I have been having problems with PING.exe *32 starting up randomly and using up almost all of my CPU. Also, Avira has been telling me that I have a trojan, Alureon.TK.3 that I cant seem to delete. I'm going to assume that a prorgam that I dont want using PING is using it because I am not pinging anything.

I ran GMER but it said there was nothing found so there was no log. when I ran it I wasnt able to check the boxes next to system, sections, devices, modules, processes, threads, and libraries so I'm unsure if there is something wrong with it.here is the DDS log

My name is Gringo and I'll be glad to help you with your computer problems.

Somethings to remember while we are working together.

Do not run any other tool untill instructed to do so!

please Do not Attach logs or put in code boxes.

Tell me about any problems that have occurred during the fix.

Tell me of any other symptoms you may be having as these can help also.

Do not run anything while running a fix.

Do not run any other tool untill instructed to do so!

Click on the Watch Topic Button and select Immediate Notification and click on proceed, this will help you to get notified faster when I have replied and make the cleaning process faster.

Please print out or make a copy in notpad of any instructions given, as sometimes it is necessary to go offline and you will lose access to them.

Run Combofix:

You may be asked to install or update the Recovery Console(Win XP Only) if this happens please allow it to do so (you will need to be connected to the internet for this)

Before you run Combofix I will need you to turn off any security software you have running, If you do not know how to do this you can find out >here< or >here<

Combofix may need to reboot your computer more than once to do its job this is normal.

You can download Combofix from one of these links.Link 1Link 2Link 31. Close any open browsers or any other programs that are open.2. Close/disable all anti virus and anti malware programs so they do not interfere with the running of ComboFix.

Double click on combofix.exe & follow the prompts.When finished, it will produce a report for you.

Note 1: Do not mouseclick combofix's window while it's running. That may cause it to stall

Note 2: If you recieve an error "Illegal operation attempted on a registery key that has been marked for deletion." Please restart the computer

"information and logs"

In your next post I need the following

Log from Combofix

let me know of any problems you may have had

How is the computer doing now?

Gringo

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I'm about to run combofix but would like to add that since that post the virus returned, I had some unknown processes running that I had to end and Avira detected another trojan that I cant remember the name of. also, when I tried to start the computer this morning it couldn't and went into system repair which I think used a restore point to sometime within the last 48 hours but I'm not sure when.

Edit: My log is way too long to post here, it's at least 3 or 4 posts long. should I just attach it or try splitting it up?

As of now the computer seems to be running fine, no suspicious programs in the past hour or so of having it on. I have noticed that prgrams are using obscene amounts of the CPU. I.E, I was on firefox and it and the plugin container were each using over 20% of the CPU

Edit: just an update, around 10pm the Win 7 antispyware or whatever it is started giving me warnings again. I had some processes running that I didnt recognize like LVVM.exe along with a few others that are just numbers the culprit seems to be nsm.exe though. Also, something closed my firefox browser and changed my settings so that it was telling me that it was set up to go through a proxy server that I didnt have permission to go through